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DBMS > Datomic vs. Graph Engine vs. HyperSQL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Graph Engine vs. HyperSQL vs. TempoIQ

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.graphengine.iohsqldb.orgtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperCognitectMicrosoftTempoIQ
Initial release2012201020012012
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, Clojure.NET and CJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM.NETAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesJava, SQLno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple authentication-based access control

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